Search for Justice
created: 06. 09. 2022 13:27 modified: 06. 09. 2022 13:29
The author of the painting is the painter Jozef Fečo. The painting is a part of the 11-pieces collection of pictures covering the events of the Romani Holocaust. The author found the inspiration in the literary work of Elena Lacková, specifically in her novel The Dead Never Return. The collection was created with support of the stipend provided by the Fund for Minorities’ Culture Development SR.
The author adds the description of the painting by the quoting the novel:
„Before she left, Estera glared at the chairman with eyes full of hatred. She grabbed Julko’s hand and walked out the door. After she left, the chairman informed his staff about the Estera’s complaint and ordered them to ignore the accusation completely.
When Esther left the building, she stroked Julko's hair with a shaking hand. Disappointed and distressed, she told him: You see, Julko, we Gypsies never claim our truth!
Estera left the building, she stroked Julko’s head with a shaking hand. Disappointed and distressed, she told him: See, Julko, we Gypsies never get justice.
And this is how it stayed since.
After liberation, the Roma never complained about their tyrants and murderers, because they knew very well that it would be in vain. To this day, no one has rehabilitated them for their suffering, injustice, wasted lives and destruction of property."
Jozef Fečo is a graduate of the Secondary Art School in Prešov, majoring in design and artistic wood shaping. He is primarily interested in the facial expressions of human faces, their expressive value and typical personality traits. For the State Science Library in Prešov, he created a series of 23 large-format paintings in 2015 and 2019 called Unknown Colours of Personalities.
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting Jozef Fečo general audience internal
To a Forced Labour Camp
created: 06. 09. 2022 13:23 modified: 06. 09. 2022 13:24
The author of the painting is the painter Jozef Fečo. The painting is a part of the 11-pieces collection of pictures covering the events of the Romani Holocaust. The author found the inspiration in the literary work of Elena Lacková, specifically in her novel The Dead Never Return. The collection was created with support of the stipend provided by the Fund for Minorities’ Culture Development SR.
The author provides description of the painting by the quoting from the novel:
"The women, who understood that they wanted to take their men away, began to wail. They were rolling on the ground in despair, tearing their hair. Don't take our men, don't take them from us! We'll die without them, they cried."
Jozef Fečo is a graduate of the Secondary Art School in Prešov, majoring in design and artistic wood shaping. He is primarily interested in the facial expressions of human faces, their expressive value and typical personality traits. For the State Science Library in Prešov, he created a series of 23 large-format paintings in 2015 and 2019 called Unknown Colours of Personalities.
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting Jozef Fečo general audience internal
Raids
created: 06. 09. 2022 13:17 modified: 06. 09. 2022 13:19
The author of the painting is the painter Jozef Fečo. The painting is a part of the 11-pieces collection of pictures covering the events of the Romani Holocaust. The author found the inspiration in the literary work of Elena Lacková, specifically in her novel The Dead Never Return. The collection was created with support of the stipend provided by the Fund for Minorities’ Culture Development SR.
The author provides description of the painting by the quoting the novel:
"The settlement was flooded with moonlight. The huts looked like ghosts in the moonlight. Everything was quiet, only now and then a man's snoring could be heard from behind the half-open door.
Suddenly, bayonets glinted in the darkness. Gendarmes were quietly sneaking into the settlement. They were armed and had clubs in hands. Commander Mihálik hissed: Now, will give the dirty trash a proper bath!"
Jozef Fečo is a graduate of the Secondary Art School in Prešov, majoring in design and artistic wood shaping. He is primarily interested in the facial expressions of human faces, their expressive value and typical personality traits. For the State Science Library in Prešov, he created a series of 23 large-format paintings in 2015 and 2019 called Unknown Colours of Personalities.
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting Jozef Fečo general audience internal
The Guardsmen
created: 06. 09. 2022 13:15 modified: 06. 09. 2022 13:16
The author of the painting is the painter Jozef Fečo. The painting is a part of the 11-pieces collection of pictures covering the events of the Romani Holocaust. The author found the inspiration in the literary work of Elena Lacková, specifically in her novel The Dead Never Return. The collection was created with support of the stipend provided by the Fund for Minorities’ Culture Development SR.
The author provides description of the painting by the quoting the novel:
“Don’t hesitate. Here’s the application form, take it and sign it. The law is also against Gypsies. But, when you become a member you save your black kids… The commissar saw his chance as he finished speaking and handed him the application.
Michal broke out in cold sweat. No, no more humiliation, nor deception! He approached the table and signed the application form to become a member of Hlinka’s Guard. Even with a stone face.”
Jozef Fečo is a graduate of the Secondary Art School in Prešov, majoring in design and artistic wood shaping. He is primarily interested in the facial expressions of human faces, their expressive value and typical personality traits. For the State Science Library in Prešov, he created a series of 23 large-format paintings in 2015 and 2019 called Unknown Colours of Personalities.
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting Jozef Fečo general audience internal
Elena Lacková
created: 06. 09. 2022 13:14 modified: 06. 09. 2022 13:14
The author of the painting is the painter Jozef Fečo. The painting is a part of the 11-pieces collection of pictures covering the events of the Romani Holocaust. The author found the inspiration in the literary work of Elena Lacková, specifically in her novel The Dead Never Return. The collection was created with support of the stipend provided by the Fund for Minorities’ Culture Development SR.
The portrait of Elena Lacková (March 22, 1921, Veľký Šariš - January 1, 2003, Košice), one of the most important representatives of the Romani social and political emancipation movement during the second half of the 20th century in Slovakia. She was the founder of the modern Romani literature in Slovakia, she assisted with founding of the first post-war Romani organisation in Slovakia (The Association of Gypsies-Romanies, 1969 – 1973), she was one of the founders of the first Romani newspaper issued after 1989, Romano ľil. Elena Lacková became the leader and the symbol of the Romani movement in Slovakia.
Jozef Fečo is a graduate of the Secondary Art School in Prešov, majoring in design and artistic wood shaping. He is primarily interested in the facial expressions of human faces, their expressive value and typical personality traits. For the State Science Library in Prešov, he created a series of 23 large-format paintings in 2015 and 2019 called Unknown Colours of Personalities.
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting Jozef Fečo general audience internal
Concentration Camp
created: 06. 09. 2022 13:12 modified: 06. 09. 2022 13:13
The author of the painting is the painter Jozef Fečo. The painting is a part of the 11-pieces collection of pictures covering the events of the Romani Holocaust. The author found the inspiration in the literary work of Elena Lacková, specifically in her novel The Dead Never Return. The collection was created with support of the stipend provided by the Fund for Minorities’ Culture Development SR.
The author provides description of the painting by the quoting the novel:
"When they found out that Jenko was blind, they tore off his clothes and dragged him into the so-called bathroom. Men, women and children entered with him. There were so many of them that Jenko couldn't even move. Foreign bodies rubbed against him, he felt fear, the children began to cry.
Suddenly everything went quiet. The door slammed. Instead of water, there was a hiss from the showers above their heads. The SS let off the gas. In a moment, only the desperate moans of suffocating people, calls for help and banging on the door could be heard inside. Jenko was crying until the last moment: Sarika, my dear, where are you, call me! But his cries and sobs were choked by the gas in his throat.
When all was quiet in the chamber, the death squad ventilated the room and the cleaners came to drag the corpses to the crematorium."
Jozef Fečo is a graduate of the Secondary Art School in Prešov, majoring in design and artistic wood shaping. He is primarily interested in the facial expressions of human faces, their expressive value and typical personality traits. For the State Science Library in Prešov, he created a series of 23 large-format paintings in 2015 and 2019 called Unknown Colours of Personalities.
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting Jozef Fečo general audience internal
Jozef Cichý - Home Alone
created: 04. 04. 2022 11:09 modified: 04. 04. 2022 11:31
The 51 cm x 65 cm drawing is the portrait of the young woman. The portrait’s name is “Home Alone”. The combined technique on plywood. The author of the portrait is Jozef Cichý. The painting was a part of the collection created by organization Jekhetane-Spolu which was supporting the work of the Romani artists. Jozef Cichý (1966-) is a painter of the Romani origin from the village Nižný Žipov in the district of Trebišov. The vehicle mechanic by profession, devoted many of his years of life to painting exclusively. His artwork is mainly influenced by Salvador Dali, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarotti and Rafael Santi. He paints mostly with acrylic and oil colours on canvas or sololit. Several of his wall paintings are in churches and funeral houses. The main motives of his artwork are of sacral nature as well as family evironment, war and "romipen". In 90s of the past century he received award for painting in the Slovak competition of amateur art work in Trenčín. Among the works of other Romani artists were his paintings exhibited in Poland, in the Museum of the Romani Culture in Brno, in Bratislava at the exhibition titled Heartprints at the Pallette of Romani Artists, in Prešov, in Michalovce at the exhibition titled Romane čercheňa (Romani Stars) or in Stropkov. Currently, his paintings can be seen in aproximately 30 villages in funeral houses and churches, exhibited in the Museum of Romani Culture in Brno and in other places both in Slovakia and abroad.
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting Jozef Cichý general audience internal
Jozef Cichý - Zefirín Jiménez Malla
created: 04. 04. 2022 09:05 modified: 04. 04. 2022 09:12
The 71 cm x 51 cm painting depicts a portrait of Blessed Zefirín Jiménez Malla. The technique used is oil on hardboard.The author of the painting is Jozef Cichý. The painting was a part of the collection created by organization Jekhetane-Spolu which was supporting the work of the Romani artists. The artifact is not dated. It was many times exhibited at events organized by the Jekhetane-Spolu association, including one of the most famous exhibitions entitled We Paint for Love - Čitrinas perdal o kamiben within the Roma Traveling Gallery. Jozef Cichý (1966-) is a painter of the Romani origin from the village Nižný Žipov in the district of Trebišov. The vehicle mechanic by profession, devoted many of his years of life to painting exclusively. His artwork is mainly influenced by Salvador Dali, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarotti and Rafael Santi. He paints mostly with acrylic and oil colours on canvas or sololit. Several of his wall paintings are in churches and funeral houses. The main motives of his artwork are of sacral nature as well as family evironment, war and "romipen". In 90s of the past century he received award for painting in the Slovak competition of amateur art work in Trečín. Among the works of other Romani artists were his paintings exhibited in Poland, in the Museum of the Romani Culture in Brno, in Bratislava at the exhibition titled Heartprints at the Pallette of Romani Artists, in Prešov, in Michalovce at the exhibition titled Romane čercheňa (Romani Stars) or in Stropkov. Currently, his paintings can be seen in approximately 30 villages in funeral houses and churches, exhibited in the Museum of Romani Culture in Brno and in other places both in Slovakia and abroad.
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting Jozef Cichý Zefirín Jiménez Malla general audience internal
Jozef Cichý - The Portrait of Jaroslav Cicko
created: 04. 04. 2022 08:53 modified: 04. 04. 2022 08:59
The painting on plywood, 51 cm x 71 cm, is the portrait of the Romani carver Jaroslav Cicko. The author of the painting is Jozef Cichý. The painting was a part of the collection created by organization Jekhetane-Spolu which was supporting the work of the Romani artists. The artifact was made in 2001. Since then it was many times exhibited at events organized by the Jekhetane-Spolu association, including one of the most famous exhibitions entitled We Paint for Love - Čitrinas perdal o kamiben within the Roma Traveling Gallery. Jozef Cichý (1966-) is a painter of the Romani origin from the village Nižný Žipov in the district of Trebišov. The vehicle mechanic by profession, devoted many of his years of life to painting exclusively. His artwork is mainly influenced by Salvador Dali, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarotti and Rafael Santi. He paints mostly with acrylic and oil colours on canvas or sololit. Several of his wall paintings are in churches and funeral houses. The main motives of his artwork are of sacral nature as well as family evironment, war and "romipen". In 90s of the past century he received award for painting in the Slovak competition of amateur art work in Trenčín. Among the works of other Romani artists were his paintings exhibited in Poland, in the Museum of the Romani Culture in Brno, in Bratislava at the exhibition titled Heartprints at the Pallette of Romani Artists, in Prešov, in Michalovce at the exhibition titled Romane čercheňa (Romani Stars) or in Stropkov. Currently, his paintings can be seen in approximately 30 villages in funeral houses and churches, exhibited in the Museum of Romani Culture in Brno and in other places both in Slovakia and abroad.
Jaroslav Cicko is a well-known Romani artist and sculptor who created his works mainly from wood, but also stone.
He was born on March 25, 1939 in Martin and died on November 18, 2010 in Horná Štubňa in the district of Turčianske Teplice.
He worked as a toolmaker at the Heavy Engineering Plant in Martin and as a carver at the Martin Studio of Non-Professional Artists. He was a lecturer at symposia of non-professional artists.
In 2000, he exhibited his works and demonstrated various methods of creating his works in Germany, the Czech Republic, Spain, France and Italy.
The most common motif of his works is a woman in all her forms.
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Radoslav Giňa - A Man's Face
created: 13. 01. 2022 14:05 modified: 13. 01. 2022 14:06
The author of the painting is Radoslav Giňa, a pupil of the Elementary School in Jarovnice. He made the painting at the age of 11 while attending the 5th grade. The painting was made in 2008. The name of the painting was given by a cataloguer.
Painting on wood was initiated by Jan Sajko. This kind of creative work with his students started in 1986. He was using waste wood of various sorts, best with flaws at those determined the way of future painting.
The painting is made of wood measuring 31 cm (width at the widest part) x 37.5 cm (height). The thickness of the wood is 3 cm on the widest side. The thickness gradually decreases. The structure of the wood is bark on the sides. On the back is written the name of the author, his age and year of painting, at the top is a hanging system.
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 3D artifact painting Radoslav Giňa general audience internal